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It will be a cold day in hell before I send a copy of my ID to facebook. WTF are people thinking?!

• ja27 16y ago
  There are worse threats. It took me less than 15 minutes to find a decent photo of you, what I think is your work address (zip 60603), possibly your home address (number is 519) and phone number (726 in the middle). I didn't come up with your date of birth but I can make a pretty good guess about your wife's (digits add up to 2011) and the date of your wedding (adds up to 2022). I'm sorry if that completely creeps you out. I tried not to give anything personal away here and that's all readily available online. That's not from a scanned copy of an ID that Facebook would hopefully attempt to protect.
  • stoney 16y ago
    Wow, that might be a little creepy but it's very eye opening. Especially as maukdaddy lists "information security" as his business, so is presumably not too reckless with his details online. I'm assuming you started with his HN profile, googled his name, found what appears to be his blog and took it from there? Maybe these days having a common name is a good defence against ID fraud!
    • maukdaddy 16y ago
      I'm not too careful with my birthdate or anniversary. LinkedIn is a huge source of information leakage, but the business and networking value outweighs that. You could datamine my twitter and find most important dates and events.
  • maukdaddy 16y ago
    I work in infosec, so none of that surprises me. But voluntarily sending something like my drivers license is completely insane. Correct on zip code, but not surprising since I work in public sector. My salary is published if you look hard enough. Edit for full disclosure: correct on zip and wife's bday, wrong on others. Off by one on annivesary
• chesser 16y ago
  We could start a betting pool on the number of years until the government makes it compulsory.